June 2012
“In war, as in love, to get it over with you have to get closer.”
– Aphorisms and Thoughts by Napoleon Bonaparte, 1838, 2008.
“Novels are the history of human desire.”
– Aphorisms and Thoughts by Napoleon Bonaparte, 1838, 2008.
“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald — The Great Gatsby
May 2012
“‘I don’t want to be an artist,’ I said. ‘I’m going to be a writer.’”
– Istanbul: Memories and the City by Orhan Pamuk
“No matter how much I write, there will always be something else I should have...”
– Megan McCafferty, Fourth Comings
“Zelda was aloof and remote; it was not that she did not pay attention to what...”
– Nancy Milford, “Zelda Fitzgerald”
Allen Ginsberg, "An Eastern Ballad"
sharingpoetry:
I speak of love that comes to mind: The moon is faithful, although blind; She moves in thought she cannot speak. Perfect care has made her bleak. I never dreamed the sea so deep, The earth so dark; so long my sleep, I have become another child. I wake to see the world go wild. (submitted by blackinkobelisk)
“We walked at night towards a cafe blooming with Japanese lanterns and I followed...”
– Zelda Fitzgerald
“So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.”
– The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
“If I can’t be beautiful, I want to be invisible.”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
“‘Augustus Waters was a self-aggrandizing bastard. But we forgive him. We forgive...”
– The Fault in Our Stars, John Green
“I won’t kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can’t get rid of habits.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, Flappers and Philosophers
